The Australian-based biotechnology company CSL Ltd. this week celebrated the formal opening of its new facility in Waltham, one of the few labs in the region that will be designated as a BSL-3 lab, meaning it will meet the second-highest biosafety level requirements.

Sales are from the seven-county metro area that includes Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington counties. Sales were eligible for The List if they closed in the 2022 calendar year. Tax and estimated market value information for the Eleven on the River and Four Seasons Private Residences units were unavailable, likely because both towers opened in 2022, prior to assessor values being established in early January. 670 Ferndale Road W. appears on The List twice, because it sold twice during the 2022 calendar year.

Come April, Kate Dineen will be in charge of the business group A Better City.

Covid-19 dealt a crippling blow to downtowns around the nation. Three years later, many are still trying to recover. Our new Downtown Vitality Index shows how several major cities measure up for the recovery of their city centers.

In February, 100 transactions qualified as high-end deals, or those valued at more than $400,000. The next closest month was February 2021.

“While we have already seen the implications (of post-Covid abandonment of downtowns) through the New York Office market, we are beginning to experience them here in Boston as well.”